why does it increasingly feel like the global model for right-wing politics is, "We don't need to KNOW things - we just need to DO things!"
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Replying to @fozmeadows
I mean, yeah, it's the obvious consequence of universities & education being seen as inherently left-wing, but that used to be a dogwhistle
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now it just feels like even ostensibly educated conservatives have started to believe their own propaganda about expertise as a liberal evil
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we live in a period now where actual facts, by dint of being inconvenient to right-wing agendas, are considered partisan rather than true
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guys, whatever version of the old world you're imagining isn't coming back. not the coal jobs, not manufacturing, not unsustainable farming
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yes, that's a truth more harsh to some than others. but saying that the harshness of a given reality must make it false is... well, false.
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like it or not, the only way not to fuck over those people & their sectors as the world transitions is by adopting better social safety nets
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promising more manufacturing jobs when you already opted for slave labour in the developing world over living wages is a flat-out lie -
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- and not just because you can't put that genie back in the bottle; because the developing world is gonna catch the fuck up pretty soon -
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- and when that era of unionising starts - when they get enough power to keep the profits you take overseas - you'll be fucked both ways.
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I yearn to see the math on what low wages & CEO salaries globally have done to stagnate economic models that should have adapted by now
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Replying to @fozmeadows
personally, I think there's going to come a time when the stock market and shareholding is viewed with the same revulsion as child labour.
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but I mean, sure. by all means, continue to value only those forms of malleable expertise, like market research, that tell comforting lies
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